Biking the DennisTheMenace way!!

[Mad Dave]

Met up with Denny last night, went for a bit of a blast - pretty sensible riding, a few wheelies but no dodgy overtaking manouvres. Then we swapped bikes, and it all changed.

Firstly, Dennis' ZX6R sounds absolutely gorgeous and goes like a little rocket ship, so I was in the proper 'chin on tank, throttle pinned' position. Brilliant fun. I couldnt believe just how planted and stable the bike felt, the front wheel was just stuck to the road.

The next minute, Dennis comes caning it past me on my Bandit, stands up and starts bouncing up and down (not completely sure why) before playing around with my kill switch, resulting in a big flame out the back and his clenched fist punching the air in triumph. When we got to our destination, the front brake was utilised, with the result being a fairly decent endo.

Brilliant fun - I really want to buy Dennis' bike, but im not sure where I can raise the required £3200!!

[dazren]

Hooligans.

DAZ

[Mad Dave]

Great fun.

[Davel]

It's people like you who give us bikers a bad name!

Glad you enjoyed it though......

I'd have enjoyed it too

[Mad Dave]

(roads were pretty quiet)

[BU5T4]

Good job guys!!! glad to here you had fun

Just out of interest what is this kill switch big flamey type thing you guys are talking about? sounds dangerously fun

I still cant manage to get the front wheel up on my bike only time it comes up is when I dont want it to and I scare myself half to death. Every time I actually try I just end up zooming off like shit off a shovel.

Am I right in thinking its 1st gear a little revs then clutch in so its slipping then more revs and clutch out smoooothly??

[barry sheene]

If you flick the kill switch off and on , it dumps the unused fuel into he exahust, which then ignites when the switch is turned back on, result, either a lovely large flame out of the exhaust or a blown up exhaust

[stooz]

dont do it on a Fuel injected bike or one with a cat, you will bugger it up.

[Mad Dave]

He revved the tits off it, flicked teh kill switch off, revved it again and then flicked the switch back to on. Big flame. Luckily my exhaust is still there

re Wheelies - I havent tried on the Bandit, it was Dennis doing the wheelies, on his Ninja.

[Incorrigible]

Re cash for the bike: Dave, if you ride like this for long the chances are you'll en up brown bread anyway

Just bung it on a credit card and enjoy your last few months

[Mad Dave]

I don't feel I was doing anything overly silly - I gave it some welly in places, granted, but neither of us were doing silly overtakes etc. Denny was doing a bit of stunting, but i'm sure he knows what he's doing

[Incorrigible]

Just reminding you that you've only been on a bike for a few months

Get the Z and come on a track day

[Mad Dave]

Fair enough, cheers mate

I'm only too aware that i'm still 'green'. I did welly the Z a bit but bottled it when I looked down and realised I was doing 120. We were on a nice wide, empty stretch of dual carriageway though, so relatively safe.

Maybe Dennis can clarify whether or not I was riding like a suicidal nutter or not - but then he overtook me, standing up, making the exhaust shoot flames, so maybe his view of crazy is a little slanted

[DennisTheMenace]

Far from nutter dave but your ridings not bad , i standup on the pegs to get a good view ahead sometimes . i think the greenlane mob thought i was out on a jolly on a bandit huntin Power rangers on sportsbike when i came up behind you

[Mad Dave]

Heheh, i reckon youre right - me dressed like a power ranger on your ZX6R and you in jeans and jacket on a Bandit - certainly makes more sense than me on the Bandit

I had an embarressing moment tonight - overtook a string of cars, one by one, next set of lights I filter down the right hand side to the front and as im blipping the throttle and changing down the box, the bike cuts out completely and refuses to restart. I switched it to reserve and after a few seconds it whirrs into life. Unfortunately, by this point, all the cars i'd overtaken had gone past me again, pointing and laughing most probably.

Only 120 miles to a tank by the looks of things though. When I first started riding it I was getting 150 miles, hence getting 'caught short'. I guess my mpg has gone downhill since my IAM guy told me to keep it in the 6-7k rpm zone for the majority of the time.